Brooklyn-based artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist DJ KIVA returns with
a superb new solo album 1000 Sunrises on his Adios Babylon imprint.
Navigating beauty and pain with deep, mesmeric, off-centered beats, soulful, dub-wise electronic impressions, twirling synthlines, and reinforced sub-bass, 1000 Sunrises is a perfectly balanced album. The six tracks presented here are meticulously and lovingly put together, and they move with an unhurried, reassuring pace. From the opening “Feel It,” with its extra-bouncy thump and unrelenting, catchy synthline to the meditative “Tayyib,” which maintains a solemn and contemplative mood with eerie voices but holds a propulsive groove, and the staggeringly beautiful, mind-expanding title track “1000 Sunrises,” DJ Kiva remains remarkably self-reliant and uncompromising in aesthetic throughout the entire album. Album closer “City Of The Dawn” is the uplifting, post-future, and soulful electronic music you can only get from an experienced and self-assured electronic music producer, whose style and range go far beyond arbitrary and trendy sub-genres. Electronics, melody, dub, and soul come together – same as it never was.
You can preview and buy the full album on the Adios Babylon online shop at:
http://adiosbabylon.bandcamp.com/album/1000-sunrises
Check DJ KIVA’s video for the song “Tayyib” that he created using Modul8 VJ software along with the Akai APC 40 as a video controller.
http://youtu.be/uc4K_CdiG40
The song "Tayyib" is also available for free download on his Soundcloud below:
Soundcloud